Don't get too excited for Netflix on Nintendo Switch

Joy Montgomery

Nintendo Switch is the latest gaming console that it will be coming on. Switch (and Xbox One X) drove hardware sales up 38%, while new game sales rose 7.3% year-over-year, attributable to Call of Duty: World War II and Switch titles.

The Nintendo Switch is available now. We're talking about a Nintendo Switch Emulator which is yet to be discovered. Through a Twitter account for the emulator, named Yuzu, the hackers revealed that the software was already in development.

What's more odd is the absence of a Netflix app doesn't seem like it's a decision from Netflix.

It is unlikely that we will see a stable version of Yuzu be able to run anything with a solid frame rate for a couple of years, as most emulators need some time to grow. As we reported back in September, a Netflix customer service representative mentioned an app was ready to release for the Switch, but the company was waiting on approval from Nintendo.

Yuzu and Citra have many similarities due to the similarities in the architectural design of 3DS and Switch, which has lead the authors of the previous emulator to gain interest in emulation for the Nintendo Switch, both devices use the same project architecture meaning improvements in emulators will be consistent for both devices. More than any other Nintendo console in recent years, the Switch has a reasonably wide range of games to play.

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After the angry furore that comment had caused, a Netflix spokesperson has today stepped in to explain: "We are still exploring the opportunity with Nintendo, but don't have definitive plans to share at this time". It's already home to a wonderful library of indies and ports of popular games from the past few years, while Nintendo's first-party titles continue to bolster it.

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